Connect 4 CLI

play a casual game of connect 4 in your terminal. Writen in Rust.

Tasks

• Game Logic Implementation
• Graphics Engine with ASCII game state and menu logic
• Networking Logic (with libp2p, see tutorial for more info)

Roadmap

• P2P User experience
  • input your name
  • START or JOIN a game
    • start => joins room of open games and waits for someone to join...
    • join => display all open games! (can select a peer or refresh the page)
  • make your move... (check for invalid moves)
  • valid move 1. update lokal game state 2. send move to other client as payload
  • wait for move from friend

OVERKILL FEATURES

• Brutal Mode => both player have same color, remember your position you must
• animate drop

Graphics Engine Example

Menu Engine (joining a game)

Screen 0

=== connect-4-cli ===

Welcome! (intro text goes here)

Whats your name?
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Screen 1

=== connect-4-cli ===
Welceome dcts

> (1) Start a Game
> (2) Join a Game

Choose action by typing a number:
>

Screen 2

=== connect-4-cli ===

✅ game created
joining lobby...

LOBBY
    NAME               | ID
(*) dcts...............| hceui17e8
    art_brock..........| lkv32v873
    frodo..............| sv7823uzd
    gandalf............| v824hjfvx
        
👀 waitig for someone to join your game ... 👀

Playing a Game

• Idea how to structure it
  1. title & info
  2. game state
  3. menu (or loading screen)

=== connect-4-cli ===

🟡 dcts 
🔴 gandalf 

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|  |  |🔴|  |🟡|🟡|  |
|  |🟡|🟡|🔴|🔴|🔴|🟡|
*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*

waiting for gandalf to play...
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